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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. A journey from Edinburgh through parts of North Britain : containing remarks on Scotish landscape, and observations on rural economy, natural history, manufactures, trade, and commerce : insterspersed with anecdotes, traditional, literary, and historical : together with biographical sketches, relating chiefly to civil and ecclesiastical affairs, from the twelfth century down to the present time : in two volumes, embellished with forty-four engravings, from drawings made on the spot, of the lake, river, and mountain scenery of Scotland / by Alexander Campbell.

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Creator:
Campbell, Alexander, 1764–1824
Date:
1802
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Observations on the structure of hospitals for the treatment of lunatics, and on the general principles on which the cure of insanity may be most successfully conducted : to which is annexed, an account of the intended establishment of a lunatic asylum at Edibnurgh [sic] : illustrated by five engravings.

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Creator:
Reid, Robert, 1774–1856
Date:
1809
Physical Description:
viii, [2], 80 p., [5] folded leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Caledonian sketches, or, A tour through Scotland in 1807 : to which is prefixed an explanatory address to the public upon a recent trial / by Sir John Carr ...

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Creator:
Carr, John, Sir, 1772–1832
Date:
1809
Physical Description:
[4], xxii, [2], 541, [1] p., [12] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A tour to the Highlands of Scotland, & the Isle of Staffa, with a short description of the lakes of Windermere & Derwentwater.

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Creator:
Steade, Charles
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
1 v. ([5], 214, [4] p., [40] leaves of plates, [2] folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The penny wedding / by John Grant.

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Creator:
Grant, John, active 1836–1846
Date:
1836
Physical Description:
[6], 34, [2] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Edinburgh and the surrounding country as seen from the Calton Hill [graphic] : 356 feet above the sea level : the names of the principal churches, monuments, offices &c are marked directly underneath the hills with their heights above the sea level and their distances from Edinr., towns &c. and their distances, &c.

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Creator:
Leith, Samuel, active 1830–1856
Date:
[1840]
Physical Description:
1 print on 6 joined sheets : hand colored lithographs ; sheets end-to-end 29 x 228 cm, rolled to 29 x 5 cm (scroll format)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Scottish art and national encouragement : containing a view of existing controversaries and translations during the last twenty-seven years relative to art in Scotland : with an ample appendix of documents.

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Date:
1846
Physical Description:
xvi, 110 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Twenty-sixth annual report of the Council of the Royal Scottish Academy of painting, sculpture, and architecture.

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Creator:
Royal Scottish Academy
Date:
MDCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:
25, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Souvenir of the North.

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Date:
1855?]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([40] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 14 x 400 cm., folded to 14 x 10 cm., attached to boards 15 x 11 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Registrum episcopatus Brechinensis : cui accedunt cartae quamplurimae originales / [compiled by Patrick Chalmers and J. I. Chalmers ; edited by C. Innes]

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Date:
1856
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps, port., facsims. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Modern Athenians : a series of original portraits of memorable citizens of Edinburgh / drawn and etched by Benjamin W. Crombie, miniature painter, 1837 to 1847 ; now reprinted from the original plates with new illustrative notes and biographical sketches by William Scott Douglas.

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Creator:
Crombie, Benjamin W. (Benjamin William), 1803–1847
Date:
1882
Physical Description:
xvi, 183, [1] p., 49 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Evelyn Adams diary.

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Creator:
Adams, Evelyn, fl. 1888–1925
Date:
1888 May 24-1925 June 30
Physical Description:
1 v. ([98] p.) ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts